Bearing



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BEARING. 'APPL'ICATIONV FILEDISEPT. 4, 1920.

Patented May 24, 1921.

INVENTOIR.

TTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN T. AUSTIN, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE AUSTIN ORGAN COMPANY, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

BEARING.

Application filed September 4,1920.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that JOHN T. AUSTIN, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bearings, of which the following is a specification.

This inventon relates to bearings, the object of the invention being to provide a simple and effective article of this character by which a roller or its equivalent will be properly supported for the necessary movement thereof.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of the present specification, I have shown in detail one of the many forms of embodiment of the invention which to enable those skilled in the art to practice the same will be set forth fully in the following description. I am not restricted to this particular disclosure. I may depart therefrom in a number of particulars within the scope of the invention defined by the claims following said description.

Referring to said drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bearing involving the invention.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same, or as viewed from the right in Fig. 1.

Like characters refer to like parts in both views.

The device involves in its makeup a bearing member such as that denoted in a general way by 2. Said bearing member as shown, is practically of forked construction and is carried for floating movement for instance by a flexibly mounted hanger as 3, the hanger as shown terminating at its lower end in an eye 4 to receive the upper closed end of the bearing member 2, the latter being so supported that it may swing forwardly and backwardly or laterally. It is proper to call attention to the fact that the hanger or Wire 3 is inherently flexible. The

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 24, 1921.

Serial No. 408,215.

forwardly-extending arms or projections 5 in transverse register with each other and which terminate at their front ends in upstanding stops 6, these stops with the bodies of the branches of the fork limiting the movement bodily of the part, whatever it may be, carried by the bearing member.

As shown this part is a roller 7 peripherally grooved as at 8. The roller 7 is furnished with a stud or gudgeon 9 extending entirely through it centrally and which may in fact be driven in place. This roller 7 is situated between the branches or sides of the bearing member 2 and the stud or gudgeon 9, of cylindrical form, rolls upon the arms or projections 5 of said branches and it is limited in its movements by the branches of the bearing member 2 and the stops 6.

What I claim is:

1. A. bearing comprising a forked flexibly mounted bearing member the branches of the fork having arms, a roller situated be tween said branches, having a stud extending through it and supported for movement by said arms.

2. A bearing comprising a forked flexibly mounted bearing member, the branches of the fork having arms, and a roller situated between said branches, having a stud extending through it and supported for rolling movement by said arms, the latter being provided with stops spaced from said branches, the stops and branches acting to limit the movement of the stud.

In testimony whereof I aflix m signature.

JOHN T. USTIN.

In presence of ELSIE M. RABnNsTEIN, HEATH SUTHERLAND. 

